Llicenciatura en Administració i Direcció d'Empreses (3323)
Llicenciatura en Economia (3322)

Història Econòmica de l'Empresa(11874) 

I. BACKGROUND

Tema 1

Introduction: The course and its requirements.  

Tema 2

Definitions: The firm, its boundaries and development.  

Tema 3

Pre-industrial economic organizations.  

II. THE FIRST INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Tema 4

The emergence and spread of the factory organization.  

Tema 5

Defenders and critics of capitalism: Smith, Marx et al.  

III. THE SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Tema 6

Mass production and management in the United States.  

Tema 7

The role of banks, government and organized labour.  

Tema 8

Developments in other countries I: Europe.  

Tema 9

Developments in other countries II: Russia and Japan.  

Tema 10

Models of management: Taylor, Fayol and Weber.  

IV. CHANGES AND EXPANSION OF THE AMERICAN MODEL

Tema 11

Growth, diversification and internationalisation of US companies.  

Tema 12

A changed framework: Depression, New Deal and WWII.  

Tema 13

American enterprise as a worldwide reference.  

Tema 14

Defining the role of managers: Drucker et al.  

V. CHALLENGES TO THE US DOMINANCE

Tema 15

State driven: Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and France.  

Tema 16

Enterprise driven: Germany and Italy.  

Tema 17

Development driven: Japan and the Asian tigers.  

VI. RECENT CHANGES

Tema 18

From industry to services.  

Tema 19

IT, networked organizations and dot.coms.  

Bibliografia

BLACKFORD, Mansel G. The Rise of Modern Business in Great Britain, the United States, and Japan. 2a. ed. rev. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
CHANDLER Jr., Alfred i d'altres (ed.). Big Business and the Wealth of Nations. Nova York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
VALDALISO, Jesús Mª; LÓPEZ, Santiago. Historia económica de la empresa. Barcelona: Crítica, 2000.